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(No Model.)

' J. GARCIA.

MACHINE FOR CLEANSING AND EXTRACTING FIBER. N0. 355,073.

Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

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SPECIFICATIONfor-ming part of Letters Patent No. 355,073, dated December28, 1886.

Application filed May 5, 1886. Serial No. 201,255. (No model.)

To all whom it .may concern;

Be it known that I, JosErH Genera, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,certify that I haveinvented certain Improvements in Machines forCleaning and Extracting Fiber, of which the following is V aspecification.

My invention relates especially to devices employed for cleaning andextracting fiber from fibrous plants, and has for its object theprovision of a device simple in construction, cheap in manufacture,adapted to be used without danger of injury or accident, and which willbe efficient and rapid in operation.

To attain the desired end my invention consists in the construction andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side 0 view of my machine, andFigs. 2 and 3 are'detail views of parts ofniy machine.

Like letters ofreference, wherever they occu r, indicate correspondingparts in all the figures. Referring to the drawings, Arepresents thebed-plate of my machine, which may be provided with any suitablestandards, as a. The wheel B, supported by the bed-plate, revolves.

in suitable bearings, and is provided with a number of tools-namely, thehacking-combs 0 b,or equivalent picking devices, and the scutchingblades or knives b, or equivalent scraping 'gidly attached to theperiphery of devices-r1 the wheel B, so that each tool is held at asuitable inclination froin the direction in which the wheel B revolves,and preferably at an angle with the radius of the wheel that is nearestto it, as is customary in such machines.

Supported by standards rising from the bedplate A, and placed in frontof the wheel B and 40 at the rear of the feed-table A, are the guide orfeed rolls 0, preferably two in number, and similar removing-rolls, D,preferably three in number, are placed in suitable supports beneath thewheel B, as is clearly shown in the drawings. Also supported beneath thebedplate A, and placed on each side of the rolls D, under the wheel B,are two concave chutes, E and E, which are urged toward the revolvingwheel B by means of the springs e, and limited in such motion by meansof the adjustable screw-threaded rods 6 passing through the diagonalbraces a of the frame-work of my machine, and stop-nuts e, thereonplaced, as is indicated in Fig. 1.

Placed beneath. the rolls D is the endless apron F, which may be movedalong by any suitable means. The operation of parts is as follows; TheWheel Bis driven by means of any suitable motive power. A pulley, B",rigidly attached to the shaft of the wheel B, serves to impart motion tothe rollsO and D, as indicated. The fibrous material is fcdto themachine over the table A and passes through the rolls 0, thus. avoidingany danger of injury, which is incident to the former method of feedingby hand.

The fibrous plants are automatically urged with elastic pressure againstthe action of the tools on the periphery of the wheel B, the tools beinginclined, to avoid cutting or tear- 7o ing the useful fibers andclogging of the tools with the useless portions of the leaf or plant,

and one end of the plant is thus cleaned while the same is being fedthrough and held by the rolls 0. As soon. as the cleaned portion of theplant has passed over the concave chute E it is grasped by theremoving-rolls D,which serve to hold the plant, while the remainingportion of the same, when freed from therolls G, is cleaned by the jointaction of the concave chute E and the tools 11 and b. It will beobserved that my machine is thus automatic in its operation. Theremovingrolls D serve to move the plant-fiber after being cleaned, andplace the same upon the endless belt F, or equiva- 89'" lent device,which is adapted to carryit to a. suitable-place for the purpose offurther tram ment. The waste, dirt, &c., may becarried away over the topof the concave chute E. p

The number of the feed-rolls G or of the re- 90" moving-rolls D may beincreased, if desired.

As it is evident that many slight changes in the construction andrelative arrangement of parts might be resorted to without departingfrom the spirit and scope of my invention, 5 I would have it understoodthat I do not 'restrict myself to the particular construction andarrangement of parts shown and described.

I am aware that machines for disintegrating fibers have been hithertoused which have been provided with feeding and removing rolls and onechute bearing against a revolving wheel furnished with tools; but in allsuch machines, whenever one end of the fiber is fed to the machine andcleaned, the other end is retained, which latter end can only be cleaned(on account of the lack of the second chute with which my machine isfurnished) by removing the plant and again feeding the same in areversedposition; whereas by my improvement, before the plant has entirelypassed through the feeding-rolls, the cleaned end is caught and retainedby the removing-rolls,whilethe remaining portion of the plant is cleanedthrough the agency of the revolving wheel in connection with the secondchute. I. do not therefore claim, broadly, a fiber-disintegratingmachine; but What I claim as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

/ 1. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination,with feeding-rolls and one concave chute adapted to hold and support theplant while a portion of the same is being cleaned, and withremoving-rolls and a second concave chute adapted to hold and supportthe .plant while the remainder of the same is cleaned, of a revolvingwheel provided with suitable tools and adapted, in connection with thechutes, for the purpose of cleaning the plant, substantially as setforth.

2. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, withthe wheel B, provided with tools, as set forth, of the feedingrolls 0and chutes E and E, substantially as described. 3. In a machine forcleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, with the wheel B,provided with to0ls,as set forth, of the removingrolls D and chutes Eand E, substantially as I described.

4. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, withthe wheel B, pro vided with tools, as set forth, of the endless apron Aand of the removingrolls D and chutes E and E, substantially as shownand described.

5. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, withthe wheel B, provided with tools, asset forth, of the feed-rolls G andthe removing-rolls D and chutes E and E, substantially as and for theuses and purpose shown and described.

In testimony of the foregoing specification I do hereby sign the same,in the city, county, and State of New York, this 1st day of May,

JOSEPH GARCIA. In presence of- J AS. B. KILSHEIMER, JN. MILLs.

